The University of Texas at Arlington Men's Basketball

Bringing nearly 20 years of collegiate coaching experience ranging from Texas junior college to most recently the University of Kentucky, former UT Arlington men's basketball student-athlete KT Turner was named the 10th full-time head coach in program history on Mar. 17, 2023. During Turner's first season at the helm of the Mavericks' program, UTA reached the WAC Tournament championship game, and concluded the year with a 20-14 record and 13-7 conference mark. Turner's squad improved on the previous season by nine wins, and won seven more league contests. Turner, 45, was previously an assistant coach with Kentucky – hired by John Calipari to keep the Wildcats' Texas recruiting flowing – and that came on the heels of one season each as an associate head coach at Oklahoma (2021-22) and Texas (2020-21). Prior to his time in Austin, Turner spent seven years on the SMU sidelines from 2013-20, the last four of which were in an associate head coaching role. In 2012-13, Turner was an assistant coach for Wichita State, helping the Shockers post a 30-9 record and reach the Final Four. After playing his freshman and sophomore seasons at Hutchinson Community College, Turner transferred to UTA and played for the Mavs before finishing his playing career at Oklahoma City University for his senior campaign in 2001-02.

A Texas native with operational and coaching experience in the Lone Star State, Cody San Miguel is in his first season as an assistant coach with UT Arlington. San

Dallas Grato joined the UT Arlington men's basketball staff as the program's head athletic trainer in July of 2024. Grato comes to UTA, where he will be responsible

Derrick Obasohan re-joined the UTA men’s basketball program in 2023-24 as a graduate assistant after previously spending the 2019-20 season with the Mavericks in

With previous coaching stops at the Division-I level, prep schools both in the United States and internationally, the AAU circuit and as part of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), Jeremy Pope is in his third season as an assistant coach with UTA, after joining head coach KT Turner and the program in 2023-24. Pope, who started with UTA in April of 2023, joins the Mavericks after spending the previous two seasons (2021-23) as an assistant coach with the University of Portland in the always-competitive West Coast Conference (WCC). In advance of the 2023-24 season, Pope, 32, was named to Silver Wave Media's 75 Rising Stars: Impactful Men's Mid-Major Assistants list. Additionally, he was selected to participate in the 2023 Collegiate Coaching Consortium, hosted by the NABC & AthleticDirectorU. With Portland, Pope helped the Pilots to 19 wins in 2021-22, matching the program's 4th-most wins since it joined the D-I ranks in 1958. Additionally, he assisted in guiding Portland to its first postseason victory at the NCAA level when the Pilots defeated New Orleans in The Basketball Classic, a successor to the CIT (CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament). Prior to his stop in Arizona, Pope spent two seasons (2018-20) at Orangeville Prep in Ontario, Canada, as an assistant coach. Considered the top prep program in the country about an hour from Toronto, Orangeville graduated seven seniors who reached the D-I ranks during Pope's time on staff, went undefeated in all competitions and won th

Pickens is currently in his third season with the Mavericks after beginning his time with UTA in April of 2023 under head coach KT Turner.   Pickens, 32, spent

Longtime SMU staff member Sean Stout, who spent this past season with the San Antonio Spurs, has been reunited with KT Turner as an assistant coach on the UT Arlington